Attempted Redrum was a bad bottle, and now my Guillemot Nebula is likely infected.

Taste is okay, some roast, no bourbon, and a big weird cherry finish on the flavor. The two other BA's tasting this and I were all unanimous inc alling out infection. Still drinkable, but clearly not what this was intended to taste like. (371 characters)

A black body with a centimeter of beige head; mild retention and sufficient lacing. Aroma is of red wine, tart cherries, sour grapes, a bit of chocolate, and perhaps some prune. It tastes of tart cherries, grapes, and apple upfront, with a chocolate center. A bit of the bourbon and vanilla come through in the middle as well, especially as it warms. Dry oak, red wine, and the faintest hint of ethanol on the finish. Mouthfeel is tart and dry, especially on the finish. Lively and puckering up front, smooth in the center, but desiccating at the end. Overall, this is a wonderfully complex and unique beer. The darker ales in a red wine barrel seem to be increasingly common, perhaps due to their intriguing complexity. This one has a lot of great features, but almost seems like it’s trying to do too much all at once. Still, tremendously enjoyable! (910 characters)

Pours a murky brown with a foamy dark khaki head that settles to wisps of film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace slowly drip into the remaining beer on the drink down. Smell is slightly sour and tart with roasted malt, fruit, and acidic aromas. Taste is much the same with slightly sour and tart roasted malt and fruit flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of acidity on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer that is tasty but the sour aspect comes across slightly better in the aroma. (710 characters)

Poured from a 375 mL bottle into a tulip. Labeled as a dark saison, but I'm not sure that's how I would classify it. Does not conform to typical saison guidelines, but then I've never heard of a barrel aged saison before.

Poured a dark, opaque, almost chocolate color with a half inch of a mocha colored, lingering head. Small amount of lacing. The smell was rather intriguing, dominated by oak with hints of cherry, and something reminiscent of coffee. The upfront taste had a red wine quality to it, followed by bourbon, and finishes off dry and tart. Medium bodied, fine amount of carbonation.

An interesting beer, no question. I thoroughly enjoyed drinking it, and as the beer warmed the flavors deepened adding to the experience. However, I would probably not stand in sub 30 degree weather for three hours again for another one. (837 characters)

375ml waxed and capped bottle into a Cantillon tulip. Shared with schen9303.

Pours a .5 finger foamy mocha head with poor retention. Lacing is spotty. Thin but oily and and sticky legs. Beer is a dark, almost opaque brown. Solid but there's not a whole lot of BA dark saisons out there. I guess this is the benchmark?

Nose is ash, peppercorn, very mellow booze, some purple grape, and some cobweb funkiness. Solid but pretty subtle overall.

Opens peppercorn, coriander, subtle roasted malt, some mellow tart grape and a light prune character. Barrels don't provide flavor so much as a light, booze overtone. End is grape and prune skin with some smoke. A lightly dark fruit tartness in the aftertaste. A strange beer to say the least but it is enjoyable.

Light to medium bodied with ample carbonation. Bubbly, foamy, but overall pretty smooth in the mouth and goes down sharp and slightly boozy. Accented finish with a lingering aftertaste. Pretty nice. The barrel aging is incorporated well here.

I'm not sure how to talk about this beer except to say that it's one of the strangest I've ever had. Not many breweries do a barrel aged dark saison as one of their first beer releases but I think overall, this is a success. Solid all the way around if nothing outstanding. Worth trying. (1,294 characters)

Serving it at about 50 degrees or so it is pungent right out of the bottle. Lemons, kumquat, sour grapes and tart cherries all followed up by char roasted nuts.

The attack is all grapefruit flowing into rich chocolate and nuttiness. The finish highlights the roasted char of the malts accented by the dry "corky" flavor i find in certain sours. This combo culls out the oak tannins and showcases charred barrel flavors. The whole melange leaves a persistent tangy mouthwatering effect.

This comes across as a full bodied saison. It sits as a medium weight brew on my tongue, which is heavy for my take on the style. The fizzy small bubble carbonation and acid itself take away from the smooth viscous texture but i def know its there.

Unique. Insightful. Contrived. Bold. Domesticated. Yum...i think...no definitely yum. The corky flavor i referred to, whether it be from some brett or pediococcus or lactobacterium, along with the roastiness of the malts used does produce some off flavors. Maybe its cause i am a sucker for sours...complexity alone this beer has something to offer. (1,159 characters)

Pours a deep brown, almost black color with with brown light escaping along the edges. Medium khaki head with some spotty lacing.

Aromas begin with some light roasted malt, some biscuity malt, then some oak and earth. As it warms you get some Belgian estery yeast and some vinious dark fruits. Fairly complex.

The tastes follow the nose with some crackery malt, light roasted chocolate malt, earthy leather mixed with some dark fruity prunes and oak. Yeast esters emerge more as it warms.

Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carboantion. Finish is spritzy and mildly oaky; mainly on the dry side but on par for the style.

Overall it is hard to quantify this beer as there are not many dark saisons on the market and definitely fewer good ones. I feel the same way about this as I do with Black IPAs, even the best ones are just not for me. I enjoyed this but the flavor profile almost seems muddled and wild, which I understand is the goal with most farmhouse ales but the darker malts confuse and slightly clash with the Farmhouse yeast flavors. (1,053 characters)

A: Pours out deep brown with reddish hues. Collar of off white, light tan head. Seems to have decent carbonation. You get some lacing bits on the glass after the swirl. Getting some alcohol feet.

S: On the nose, I get some basement like musty funk, probably from the wine barrel treatment. Umami for sure. There is come cocoa in there, maybe some spice that I can't place. Lots of oaky tannic notes. Not as much vanilla as I was expecting.

T: Tip of tongue, I got some tart funk. It is almost like Supplication, as others have mentioned. It's a pronounced wine barrel cherry like tart character. I get some cocoa in the malt bill and on back end which is pretty nice. I really don't classify this as a Saison category, but who am I. Finish is dry. Definitely tannic from the wood aging.

I was lucky enough to have this side by side with the Prunus. Served from the bottle into a tasting snifter.

The beer pours a dark brown color with a small amount of off white head. The smell is less sweet than the Prunus. There is a mildly tart note along with a hint of oak. The taste is less sweet as well. I'm still getting a dark fruit note. The tartness is less than the Prunus, but it's still there. I would say this beer is a bit smoother. Some oaky notes in the finish. As with the Prunus, nothing is saying saison to me. (531 characters)

A: Opaque, dark brown body. Three-finger head that recedes down to about half a finger after my first few sips. Not much lacing.

S: The 50% aged in red wine barrels is immediately evident. Notes of cherries, lemons, lactic acid, and every once and awhile a little bit of sweet bourbon as well. Somewhat reminds me of Supplication.

T: I get fruit first - tart cherries and lemons again. This is immediately followed by vinous, musty red wine flavors. In the middle some notes of vanilla and bourbon come in, with lactic acid in the background. Towards the end the taste tapers away, and the aftertaste is that of slightly charred oak, lasting for a good ten seconds. The taste seems like a combination of Supplication and a Flanders Oud Bruin to me. No heat is detectable. If I had scored this after the first third of the bottle, it would have been a bit lower, but as it warmed up I got more complexity, especially with those flavors in the middle.

M: Lots of gentle carbonation. Not as evident as in most saisons, and is gone by about half way through the sip. There is a creaminess to the liquid that I enjoy (ninja edit: that's what she said), which is not typical in the saisons I've had.

O: A resounding winner, though not particularly reminiscent of a typical saison. I would like the flavor to be a little more present and less bitter at the end, and would enjoy being able to smell more bourbon and oak. A bit of spiciness from the wood would have made this even better, but it was a treat as is. (1,512 characters)

T - The taste is more tart and heavier on jammy red wine, with the roasty flavors moving to the periphery. The sweetness of the malts and and oaky vanillin come out more as the beer warms. Oaky finish, with a touch of bourbon.

Taste: Medium sourness is detectable right away. This yields to big vinous notes, dark berries, burnt malt, oak, and a smokiness that lingers into the finish and aftertaste. There's some earthy funkiness that comes out as the beer warms, but it's extremely mild.

Mouthfeel: Medium to full bodied with a soft, almost creamy mouthfeel and medium fine carbonation. Dry finish.

A Baltic porter base fermented with saison yeast, aged for six months in Jim Beam and red wine barrels. (I guess that makes this a saison? I'll let someone else figure it out.)

Poured slightly chilled into a TH stem glass, a solid dark ruby-brown when held to the light with a small cap of rocky tan head that retained well and left sticky lacing on the glass; lots of floaties. In the nose, some roasty malts, lots of red wine, spicy yeast, rife with fruity and non-offensive phenols. Wow...surprisingly tart at first taste, notes of cherry and grape, tartness subsides, yielding a fruity sweetness that tickles the tastebuds, like chocolate-covered cherry cordials. Dark roasty malts exist in the background, much like the effect you'd get from the hop-dominated malts in a CDA/ABA. Saison yeast also comes through in a meaningful way, bringing in flavors of wet grass and citrus. This really delivers a great mash-up of three beers styles: a porter, a saison, and a wild ale. The bourbon is not very noticeable at first, but as it warms, a subtle woody bourbon taste starts to materialize. Body is on the fuller side of medium, blasting with flavor. This is a great beer, and a very nice sipper. Not sure of the ABV, but I'd guess it around 7-9%.

If this is a glance at the future of TH's barrel aged beer, then...hmm...they might be on to something here. (1,402 characters)

Snappy sourness right up front with layers of cherries and grape skins. Fruity and vinous, driven by red wine character, tobacco, toasted oak and bourbon. Hints of vanilla and chocolate in the malt base, roasted dark tones and soft sweetness. Tart, funky yeast on the tongue with alcohol warmth in the finish.

Medium body, upper level carbonation, dry and bubbly on the tongue. Fascinatingly complex and interesting beer which offers much more than the typical barrel-aged saison (also, I found this to be more of a straight up wild ale). (903 characters)

A: dark...wasn't expecting it to be a dark saison. Some ruby red highlights, but mostly opaque. Half finger khaki head that simmers to a layer of patchy lace. Solid looking beer...could be mistaken for a stout based on appearance alone.

T/M: Nice, real nice. Follows the nose to a degree. A good bit of roast, some funk. Acidity is there but doesn't give you heart burn, just a nice tartness along the tongue. You do get just a touch of the alcohol warming believe it or not. Loving the mouthfeel...I'd call it a medium to medium-full. Carbonation is absolutely perfect...keeps the beer moving across the palate but stops just short of being fizzy.

O: Really nice surprise of a beer. Good for all seasons. Not necessarily a saison, but tasty nonetheless. Better than other comparable "dark" wild beers out there (JP, Brewery Vivant, etc...). Really dug this...will be looking for Prunus next or other botted Tired Hands beers. (1,109 characters)

Taste: Big sour black cherries and lemon zest up front, then the candy caramel comes through in the middle. It finishes with an earthy chocolate and coffee with a lingering sourness and clinging sweetness. Really nice balance of the sour cherry wine barrel aspects, sweet caramel bourbon barrel, and dark malty base beer.

Mouthfeel: Rich and creamy. Really impressive for the style and amount of aging.

Overall: Very impressed with this one. Expert blending of barrel-aged varieties of a tasty base beer. The sourness is rather restrained here and I think this could appeal to stout drinkers and sour fans alike. If you don't have a bottle, its definitely worth seeking out. (910 characters)

Pours near black with a single-finger tan head. Good retention and great lacing. Thin cap throughout.

Nose begins with fairly-strong notes of red wine and a good bit of cherry. Light earthiness along with faint oak. Bit of roast, though not much. Flavor is really excellent and integrated with red wine, oak, slight vanilla, earth, cherry, and moderate acidity. Just a touch of whiskey through the finish.

Acidity is not excessive, but definitely present, flowing beautifully after the red wine flavors. Light-medium body with moderate carbonation.

Quite drinkable, and the complexity increased as it warms. Excellent. (689 characters)

T: Red wine and bourbon barrel blend are immediately evident. Huge red wine tannins, sweeter bourbon but not overpowering. The sour/tartness is really nice, full of cherries and lemon. A syrupy molasses note sticks and lingers on the back end.

M: Nicely balanced without being too thin or too syrupy. Medium bodied with just a ridiculous perfect level of carbonation. Classic Tired Hands.

I loved this one. It reminded me a lot of Domo which I thought was outstanding. The blended barrels play extremely well off each other. This is one I wish I attended the release for. Oh well. Thanks again for the pour Jason, you rock! (970 characters)